Accidental Theater opens to the world with the LU800 from LiveU

The LU800 relay solution from LiveU has allowed the artistic space Accidental Theatre (Belfast) broadcast its programming through its website.

Accidental Theatre It began its journey in 2011 as a traveling artistic company and quickly evolved to take over venues and convert them into performance spaces. In 2017, he took over the current space he occupies, a former bank, and redesigned it so that it was “a place for people to try things and grow what they do,” as he explains. Richard Lavery, director artístico.

La pandemia hizo que Accidental Theatre tomara la decisión de ampliar significativamente sus capacidades de transmisión en directo. Lavery y su equipo crearon una pequeña sala de control y un espacio de edición en el teatro y dos pequeños estudios en lo que eran las bóvedas del banco. También seleccionaron la instalación de un sistema de producción Blackmagic Atem y pasaron de una configuración de dos cámaras a una de seis, incluidas varias cámaras PTZ.

LiveU en Accidental Theatre

He LU800 de LiveU ejerce como eje de la transmisión de los directos Accidental Theatre. La unidad de campo se conecta a tres cámaras PTZ que pueden controlarse on site or remotely from the art space control room. Likewise, the system LiveU It is capable of transporting the audio signals captured by each of the cameras. The workflow is completed with one unit LiveU Solo which provides redundancy to production.

Lavery is completely satisfied with the performance of LiveU solutions: "The reliability of LiveU technology is a big plus. It's the number one priority for us. The LU800 has a fantastic balance between quality and reliability, and the quality is much higher than I expected. The LU800 is absolutely solid, so we can generate high-quality streams. We think of what we are doing as a completely new platform. It won't replace theater performances, of course, but it will make our job "It is much more accessible throughout the country. We see a whole range of new possibilities."

Malcolm Harland, country manager of LiveU in the UK, celebrates the role of LiveU solutions in Accidental Theatre's workflow: "This is a really exciting use of our technology, opening up new creative and revenue possibilities for artists and performance venues. We've been hugely impressed by the way Richard and his team have approached this and developed their system. And of course, the fact that they can create such exciting content so reliably says it all."